copy of protocol comparison

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N
1	Requirement	Veilid	Freenet-Locutus (2023)	Yggdrasil	Braid	Earthstar (Willow)	P2Panda	Secure Scuttlebutt	Nostr	Polycentric	Berty (Wesh)	NewNode	Session	SimpleX

2	Core Function	Anonymity Network	Distributed Computation	Overlay Network	State Synchronization	Decentralized Collaboration	Decentalized Collaboration	Social Network	Social Network	Social Network	Private Messaging	Private Messaging	Private Messaging	Private Messaging
3	Decentralized (No Single Point of Failure)			YES				PARTIAL: uses DHT to find peers	NO: clients provide relay defaults
4	Private (Packets Encrypted in Transit)	YES	YES	YES	PARTIAL: depends on the transport	YES	YES	YES	YES
5	Authenticated (Signed Events)					YES	YES	YES: all messages are signed	YES
6	Anonymous (Peer Obfuscation)	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO: identity trivially linked to IP address	NO: partly centralized architecture
7	Censorship Resistant (Blind Replication)			NO				PARTIAL: explicit replication	PARTIAL: some content on multiple relays
8	Perfect Forward Secrecy	YES	YES					NO
9	Blockchain / Distributed Ledger	NO		NO	NO	NO		YES: each user/feed has its own blockchain	NO
10	Content Publishing			YES: most existing web servers work		YES		YES: public feeds and reactions	YES
11	Distributed Storage	YES: DHT	YES: DHT (WASM contracts)	NO		YES: append-only log	YES: append-only DAG (tangle)	YES: followers replicate all content	PARTIAL: between clients and relays only
12	Distributed Storage: Verified Order							YES: block chain
13	Distributed Storage: Mutability			N/A	YES	YES
14	Distributed Storage: Mutability (multi-player)			N/A	YES	YES		PARTIAL: events
15	Distributed Storage: Ephemerality			N/A		YES
16	Private Messaging	PARTIAL: VeilidChat work in progress	NO	NO				YES: encrypted but still replicated publicly			YES: core use case
17	Private Messaging: Store/Forward			N/A				YES: identical to other content
18	Private Messaging: Sealed Sender			N/A				YES
19	Private Messaging: End-to-End Encrypted			N/A				YES
20	Private Messaging: Groups			NO				YES
21	Supports Linux	YES: veilid-server, veilid-cli		YES		YES		YES: Manyverse
22	Supports Android	PARTIAL: VeilidChat work in progress		YES				YES: Manyverse			YES
23	Supports Web Client	PARTIAL: WASM implementation			YES	YES	YES	PARTIAL: ssbweb	YES	YES
24	Tolerates Short Lived Connections	YES						PARTIAL: syncing can take a while
25	Relay Servers: Public	YES		YES				YES: "pubs"	YES	YES
26	Relay Servers: Private			YES				YES: "rooms"
27	Decentralized Identity			NO	N/A			YES: public key	YES: public key	YES
28	Shared Identity Across Devices			N/A				NO: one identity per device			NO: planned
29	Friend-to-Friend / Friendnet			YES: possible if configured properly				YES: can be enforced with custom key
30	Offline First Operation			NO				YES: all operations local first, synced later	NO
31	Transport via Internet	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES: libp2p		YES	YES
32	Transport via Local Area Network				YES			YES	PARTIAL: requires manual deployment		YES: libp2p
33	Transport via Nearby Device	NO						PARTIAL: bluetooth unmaintained			YES: BLE, Nearby
34	Transport via Sneakernet	NO				PARTIAL: proposed		PARTIAL: conceptually possible
35	Transport via Long Distance Radio	NO
36	Bridged to Plainnet Internet	NO	N/A	YES	N/A	N/A	N/A	Plainnet, web frontends	Plainnet, web browsers
37	Transparent Layer-3 Network Proxy	NO		YES
38	Stable Release / Maintained	PARTIAL	PARTIAL	YES	YES	PARTIAL: new maintainer, being rewritten to use the Willow protocol	NO	YES	YES	YES
39	Open Source	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES		YES	YES	YES	YES
40	Programming language	Rust / Dart	Rust	Go		Javascript / Rust	Rust	Javascript / Rust	Go / Javascript
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